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<div><h1 class="article-title">What are the Message Center Notifications in my Home site?</h1></div>
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    <p>The Message Center in Home displays the Messages and Forum posts for all of the sites in which you are enrolled. New messages are indicated by a number and envelope icon. If there are no new messages or posts, the word "none" will be displayed.</p>
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<li>Clicking the title of the site will take you to the homepage for that site.</li>
<li>Clicking the <strong>New Messages</strong> indicator will take you directly to the Message Inbox for that site.</li>
<li>Clicking the <strong>New in Discussions</strong> indicator will take you directly to the Discussions for that site. </li>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">View the Message Center.</h2>
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    <p>While viewing your Home site, select <strong>Overview</strong>. Move down the page until you locate the <strong>Message Center Notifications </strong>area.</p>
<p>Clicking on the link for the number of new messages/posts will take you directly to the tool in the appropriate site.</p>
<p>Clicking on a column heading sorts by the column.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Hiding sites in Message Center Notifications</h2>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Click Options.</h3>
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    <h3 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Choose sites to hide and then click Update.</h3>
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<li> In the <strong>Don't Show</strong> column, check the box associated with site/s that you prefer not to see </li>
<li>Click <strong>Update</strong>. </li>
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    <p><em><strong>Note</strong>: If you have already hidden sites in Preferences, they will not show up in this list.</em></p>
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